Getting Dressed for the Wedding

Hey, Guys - thanks for all the input from yesterday's entry, but I decided I didn't like the gold dress after all. It was a mail order item and looked good on the internet, but when I tried it on the color was great as was the basic style, but what didn't show in the catalog was that it had puffy caps on the sleeves!! I felt like a little football player wearing big shoulder pads with those sleeves sticking up above my shoulders like they used to do back in the 80's. Ugh. So back that dress goes. I love the general style and that part looked good on me, I've found several others similarly styled and they don't look like they have puffy sleeve caps so I'll order them and see what's what. One of them comes in a deep teal, which should coordinate quite well. Lovely Daughter and I have two more bridal shops in town that we haven't visited and plan on doing that on Saturday morning.

I told Ole he's going to have to rent a tux. You can imagine the reaction I got from that. His response was, "You mean I can't go in my jeans and flannel shirt?" Remember, since he retired his standard attire is blue jeans and a flannel shirt with a t-shirt underneath. I don't think he's had a suit on since he retired although I kept three of them and they're still hanging in the closet. It's funny what happens to those suits and dress shirts. You hang them in a dark closet and they shrink!! Easter Sunday I thought he could at least wear a dress shirt and tie to church. When he came out of the bedroom he had the dress shirt on but no tie. When I asked why not he said the shirt had shrunk enough that he couldn't get the collar buttoned!! Hmmmm. Something's wrong here, don't cha' think?

Speaking of flannel shirts, you know it's summer when Ole finally quits putting a flannel shirt on in the morning. And that isn't usually until the 4th of July around here. We were working outside the other day and it was really nice. Warm sunshine and temps up in the 60's. He was helping me dig some bushes up and started complaining that he was too warm. But did he take his flannel shirt off? Not on your life - it's not the 4th of July yet, you know.

Also, can somebody let me know again what the planned dates for the Great Javalina Hunt are in October? I've forgotten the exact dates and need to start laying some groundwork for that trip. Like taking 50% of our income each month and putting it away to buy diesel fuel so we don't go bankrupt!!! It's about 1600 miles from here to Tombstone, and when your rig only gets 8 mpg, you need a few bucks tucked away. And at THAT price, we better darn well catch a javalina with one of those flaming marshmallows!! I could have Ole ride the Harley out into the desert and scare them up for us, you know. Not even a javalina would mess with a biker dude.

Eenie, Meenie, Minie, Moe

I need some help here, People!! You guys have never let me down and I know I can count on you this time.

Lovely Daughter is getting married in September, so it's time for me to shop for a Mother of the Bride dress. She and I went out one Saturday a few weeks ago and I did find something that I kind of liked that day. But I didn't buy it, I wanted to think about it a bit. It's not exactly the one shown below, but very close stylewise. This is shown in a pretty blue, but the one I looked at and tried on was in a color called truffle. That's kind of a dark burgundy with a brown cast to it.


Now here's the problem. Lovely Daughter really likes the truffle mother of the bride dress in the style shown above. On a scale of 1 to 10 it probably rates about an 8 in my book. It's got a couple of things against it as far as I'm concerned. First of all I've never liked a square neckline on me. Second, I'm really not into wearing any kind of brown, which truffle kind of is. And third, I'm not sure I want to be the same color as one of the bridesmaids. One of her bridesmaids will be in truffle and the other in cognac, which blend together beautifully.

Since then I've found another dress that I really like. This one rates between a 9 and a 10 in my book. I love the color and it's a color that I can wear, plus the fact that the style just looks more "me" if you know what I mean. She really likes the other dress and it is her wedding, but I don't know if I would be comfortable in the truffle dress.



Lovely Daughter is using all fall colors for her wedding. The flower arrangements in the front of the church will be in large baskets shaped and colored like a pumpkin full of fall flowers in gold, burgundy, orange, green, etc. The tableclothes at the reception will be in a burgundy probably with gold napkins folded like fans in the wine glasses and smaller versions of the pumpkins full of fall flowers on the tables. The table skirts will be white (I think) and hopefully we can find strands of gold lights to hang behind the skirts to give them a glow. Most of the big things are taken care of, we've just got the details to finish up now - like what color is the MOB going to wear.

Advice here, People - I'll be waiting!!